Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- (geology) magma
- to go out of control
- 追 zhūi: 追 zhui1: to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously追 dūi: 追 dui1: to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)
- twenty; 20
- coffin; CL:具[ju4],口[kou3]
- 陈 Chén: 陈 Chen2: surname Chen; Chen (c. 1045 – 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state; Chen (557–589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]陈 chén: 陈 chen2: (bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell; old; stale
- 俊 zùn: 俊 zun4: (dialectal pronunciation of 俊[jun4]); cool; neat俊 jùn: 俊 jun4: smart; eminent; handsome; talented
- grand; heroic
- to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- 成功 Chéng gōng: 成功 Cheng2 gong1: Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan成功 chéng gōng: 成功 cheng2 gong1: to succeed; success; successful; fruitful
- to meet (sb) by chance on the way somewhere; to encounter (sth) on the way somewhere
- dragon's vein, terrain that looks like a dragon
- breath; smell; odor; flavor
- mica
- a way out (lit. and fig.); opportunity for advancement; a way forward; outlet (for one's products)
- 见 xiàn: 见 xian4: to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]见 jiàn: 见 jian4: to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- center; heart; core
- to borrow; (used in combination with 給|给[gei3] or 出[chu1] etc) to lend; to make use of; to avail oneself of; (sometimes followed by 著|着[zhe5]) by; with
- 回 Húi: 回 Hui2: Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)回 húi: 回 hui2: to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer; classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book); classifier for occurrences or times回 húi: 回 hui2: to curve; to return; to revolve
- to rescue; to help out of difficulties; to save the situation
- way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- primal chaos (original state of the universe in Chinese mythology); (of a situation) confused; chaotic; (of a person) muddle-headed; simple-minded
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- to pursue and attack
- disturbance; incident
- villager
- homicide case; murder case
- to carry on a clandestine love affair
- trail; clues; thread (of a story)
- midnight
- to mount a sneak attack; to raid